WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was not armed when U.S. special forces stormed his compound in Pakistan but he did resist before he was shot, the White House said yesterday.
A day after U.S. officials provided conflicting and in some cases false information about the details of the raid, White House spokesman Jay Carney gave a more detailed account of the operation. He cited the “fog of war” — a phrase suggested by a reporter — as a reason for the initial misinformation.
On orders of the president, a small U.S. team assaulted a secure compound in an affluent suburb of Islamabad to
